Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1280
Li Shimin smiled and looked at the people in the hall.

"Brother Zhang, you are familiar with the Lion City, and you were the chief archery instructor of the Linyi Forbidden Army. Brother Zhang also made great achievements in capturing the Lion City this time. In my opinion, how about asking Brother Zhang to temporarily serve as the city lord of the Lion City? "

Zhang Peng was surprised.

In terms of strength, among the three parties in the city, the strongest is of course Li Shimin.He brought hundreds of boats and more than 2000 pirates into the city yesterday.

Although Zhang Peng and a group of brothers each recruited many relatives and friends under his command, they only had a few hundred troops. Even if the forbidden army in the city finally surrendered yesterday, Zhang Peng still couldn't surpass Li Shimin.What's more, Li Shimin is not only the leader of the pirates, he is also the magistrate of Southern Tang County in the Sunset Kingdom, the adopted son of Luo Yi, the Sunset King, and his pirate group, which never sets in the sun, is still under the name of the South China Sea Fleet.

"Li Xiancheng must not make fun of me, Lao Zhang. How can I dare to take on such a big responsibility. Li Xiancheng contributed to the plan to capture the Lion City, and Li Xiancheng was the main force to take down the Lion City. I dare not take credit for it. Of course, the position of city lord must be taken by Li Xiancheng."

In this full palace, Li Shimin is indeed the only one who has official status.

Others also said that Li Shimin should be the city lord.

Li Shimin pretended to give way a few times before accepting the nomination to take over the position of temporary city lord.

"Okay, then I will temporarily act as the city lord. I will send someone to report to the South China Sea Fleet immediately. Please send someone over there to take charge."

Everyone laughed.

"Also ask the city lord to give orders!"

That's what Li Shimin was waiting for. He took down the Lion City and the three forces in the city. He had to have a legitimate identity that everyone recognized before he could command everyone.

After Li Shimin became the temporary city lord, the first thing he did was to reward his merits first.

"Everyone worked hard last night!"

The battle last night ended quickly, and there was no chaos in the city. It was well controlled, and the palace, treasury, etc. were immediately controlled and blocked.

Now in front of Li Shimin are the household registration and population registers in Lion City, treasury money and grain account books, and so on.

These have not counted the golden jewels in the court, the property of the noble officials in Linyi in the city, etc.

For those who participated in the battle last night, whether it was the pirates brought by Li Shimin, the merchant gangs in the city, or the imperial army who turned against each other, each person will be rewarded ten pennies first.

Of course, Linyi Kingdom mainly uses gold and silver, so the ten guan rewards naturally refer to gold and silver worth ten guan Kaiyuan Tongbao.

Gold and silver are rewarded first, and then wine and meat are rewarded.

For the good performance last night, there is another big reward.

If there is death or disability, each has a generous pension reward.

Of course, there must be rewards and punishments.

Li Shimin pointed out that during the siege last night, some people took advantage of the chaos to kill and rape, and secretly hid treasures.Li Shimin's personal soldiers arrested more than a dozen of them while patrolling, and Li Shimin ordered that all of them be beheaded publicly as a punishment.

Even if he killed his own people, the smiles on the faces of the rest of the people in the palace were much less.

"There is no discipline without discipline. Now that the Lion City is ours, we must strictly enforce discipline."

Everyone nodded.

There was a brief silence in the hall.

Everyone wanted to know what Li Shimin's next plan would be.

"Arrest and confiscate all the royal family, noble officials, rich, powerful, merchants, army, generals and soldiers in Lion City, and investigate the three clans. These people are hidden dangers and must be completely eliminated."

Non-my family, its heart must be different.

This is the unanimous thought of everyone at the moment. After all, this place is more than 1000 miles away from the territory of the Central Plains, and they are surrounded by enemies. They must be careful.

The most powerful opponents against them are the original interest groups.

Those who occupy the upper ranks of the population must be washed away.

It is unrealistic to clear out all the Zhan people in the whole city, so the upper layer can only be cleared first.

These are the people who are most likely to resist and have the strength to resist.

Of course, if there are people who are more active and willing to surrender, they can also be properly absorbed and left to do things.

After Li Shimin proposed to eliminate the upper and middle-level occupations in the city, he turned to personnel appointments.

He made the three forces in the city integrate, reorganized a box of 4000 men and horses, and organized them into two regiments and eight battalions.Li Shimin himself served as the envoy of the soldiers and horses, and then let Zhang Peng serve as the deputy envoy of the soldiers and horses. All the commanders of the two regiments below were his people, and six of the commanders of the eight battalions were also his people.

Zhang Peng's people consisted of two battalions.

As for the members of the business gang, some young people were selected from them to each battalion.

The two regiments and eight battalions were also divided into defense and guard tasks.

In the end, Li Shimin also proposed to use the banner of Linyi County of the Great Qin Dynasty, so in the end, Li Shimin had to be elected by everyone to serve as the prefect of Linyi temporarily.

After a few refusals, Li Shimin took over, and then appointed Zhang Peng as the county lieutenant of Linyi County, Cui Liulang of the Central Plains Chamber of Commerce as the county magistrate, and the chairman of the Lingnan Chamber of Commerce as the chief secretary.

Six Cao joined the army, etc., and each had his own appointment.

For a while, it seemed to be the same.

"As for the cleaning of the upper and middle classes, you must follow the rules, clean up from street to street, search and arrest people, and confiscate property, but you must not commit adultery or murder, set fires, or hide things privately.

"For Hu merchants, no harassment is allowed."

"From now on, Lion City is the county government of our Great Qin Linyi, and the Great Qin law system will be implemented immediately."

"All the money and artifacts seized and confiscated shall be registered and recorded, and put into the warehouse and returned to the public."

"All businessmen will also pay taxes according to the Daqin Tax Law from now on."

End of the meeting.

A group of pirate leaders surrounded Li Shimin.

"Do we really want to stay here? What if the people from Linyi call back?"

"What about the gold, is it going to be handed over to the court?"

"I think we should still melt the gold, and then everyone will share a share and go home."

"Yes, share the gold."

Li Shimin sat there, watching a group of his subordinates arguing there.

He just responded coldly, "Divide the gold and go home? Then what?"

Some people said, "If you have money, you are afraid that you will have nowhere to spend it? Buy fields, land and build houses, marry wives and concubines, buy maidservants, and buy some cows and horses. From now on, you will eat delicious food and drink spicy food every day, and live a happy life like a god."

"That's right, I don't know how happy I am."

Li Shimin said coldly, "I'm afraid that if you spend your life, have you ever thought about how much gold it is? The gold medals and statues alone are worth more than 1000 million yuan, and that's not counting the property in the treasury of the whole city." , if the city’s Zhanren are copied again, how much money will be copied? Just selling tens of thousands of Zhanren in this city into slavery will cost millions.”

"Each of you will share tens of thousands of coins to go back to your hometown? Hehe."

A group of pirate leaders think about it, and it is also a headache.

The money is indeed too much, and it is hot.

But if you say no, you are not reconciled.

Everyone is a pirate, why are you working so hard?
"If you believe in me, just listen to me. You won't lose money. You have been with me for a long time. No matter what, each of you has to give you one or two thousand guan. As for the brothers below, each one will give you one or two hundred guan. They. As for more, I dare to give it, but you may not dare to take it. Besides, now is actually an opportunity. If it works well, you will be able to clean up directly in the future."

"What's so good about being a pirate? If you can be cleansed, and even get an official rank or military status, isn't it worth it?"

Daqin's officials are valuable, and Daqin's military status is also valuable.

A group of pirates were a little tempted.

"Okay, don't be too greedy, I'll reward each of you with ten stalkers later, and the brothers below will also reward each of you with one or two. Now everyone will be satisfied," Li Shimin said.

Although Li Shimin didn't dare to proclaim himself king, he was not willing to leave with gold like this. If he stayed, with so many people, his strength meant he would have a chance to become powerful.

(End of this chapter)